DOVER — Actions to reduce traffic and pedestrian issues in the area of Chestnut Street and Third and Fourth streets are under way after residents raised concerns recently about the speed of vehicles in this corridor.

Shortly after last week’s City Council meeting, City Manager Michael Joyal said the city began to identify immediate measures that can be taken to address the problem.

The Police Department is continuing to do direct patrols throughout the downtown, including this specific location, to remind drivers about the importance of maintaining the speed limit and to be alert of crosswalks.

“These patrols will also focus on improving the awareness of pedestrians to utilize designated crosswalks for street crossings and the need to be alert to oncoming traffic and the difficulty drivers may have in seeing them and stopping in time to avoid a collision,” Joyal wrote in an email.

Joyal said the issue is raised right now, particularly because daylight hours are shorter this time of year.

The Community Services Department will be installing lighted midblock crosswalk signs as soon as they are delivered to the city, to help identify crosswalks to drivers as they come over the hill from Chestnut Street and head downtown. The signs will also help as many residents are concerned the railroad also obscures the crosswalk.

“We will be looking to install these particularly because people are just so blinded here,” Joyal said.

Last week, an overhead streetlight was reported out at the intersection of Chestnut and Fourth streets. PSNH has been contacted to expedite the repair and, according to Joyal, the light has been ordered.

Additionally, a downtown traffic improvement project identified in the Capital Improvements Program, which has been proposed for funding on Dec. 12, will continue to improve the safety of crosswalks throughout the city by reviewing previous data, measures and conflicts in the downtown area.

“Over a 10-year period, 55 traffic incidents occurred in that area, which included fender benders to, unfortunately, a few years back, an incident where a pedestrian was hit, which resulted in a death,” Joyal said. “We had made some improvements back then as a result of that, but unfortunately that was an incident that was a truly unfortunately accident.”

The Transportation Advisory Commission will meet at 6 p.m. on Dec. 17 in City Hall’s Council Chambers to discuss and review measures that were previously identified and completed on traffic mitigation to help with the pedestrian crosswalks and driving issues in the city.